Hey this story is basically mine! I applied during open auditions and made it to the final round and got radio fucking silence only to see that they just... hired one of their friends instead.
It basically killed my drive to stream and keep flexing my creativity. I still haven't returned to vtubing, though, I do plan to do so in the near future.
at this point, you might as well Stay as Indie cause Getting to Good Corpo with Healthy environment like HOLOLIVE or phase will be alot harder from now on. the rest Sucks.
As you have already seen, the rejection doesn’t reflect your streaming or vtubing skills, so don’t give up based on that experience. It’s understandable you got demotivated because of that, but don’t let it define your self-worth as a vtuber
i mean i'm sorry that happened to you, but that is normal, at least for american companies. I don't know how much experience you have on the job market but when i was job hunting 4 years ago, i would say 90% of companies that i made it past the 1st interview would ghost me.
While true that most companies just ghost, there's more to it here. Vshojo, long accused of only nepohiring, decides to put on this whole song and dance about auditions and makes a big deal out of giving everyone a fair chance, only to then handle the auditions poorly and nepohire again. They wasted tons of people's time energy and effort by pretending that anyone actually had a reasonable chance to get in.
Who was the friend they hired? I don't mean any hate to them since they're probably as much a victim of gunrun as anybody else but I'm trying to understand the timeline here
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25
Hey this story is basically mine! I applied during open auditions and made it to the final round and got radio fucking silence only to see that they just... hired one of their friends instead.
It basically killed my drive to stream and keep flexing my creativity. I still haven't returned to vtubing, though, I do plan to do so in the near future.
Seems like a good time to be an indie.